Attention stealing mousies!

Friends, I hate that stupid little man in a box that my human calls Computer. He's so moody! He got the huff last night cuz I called him names cuz he'd had my human's attention all day long, and you know what he did? He stopped talking! But it's even worse than that. he waited till my human had tippy-tapped everything I wanted to tell you into his box, and then he wouldn't read it back to her, and he wouldn't keep it in his memory either! The human said a lot of words that she usually only says when she's angry. She said she felt like kicking Computer. I told her she should. I don't like the man in the box, and it would have served him right cuz that was a mean trick he played, waiting until he could spite me by getting rid of my mewsings! It was late when he did this. The human had stayed up specially so that I could talk to you all, so when he got in a mood and wouldn't let her see what I'd said so that she could post it, she got in one and told me she had to sleep on accounta it was stupidly late and she was tired.






My mousies were three weeks old yesterday, and I didn't even get to share it with you! I think they will turn into kittens soon. In fact, I think they already are, cuz they're starting to talk to me now, and it isn't in mousie language. My girl mousie will miaow at me and she even answers me when I brrrp miaow back at her, well, she does sometimes anyway. So does my big boy, the one the human calls Porker, although he usually just screams when I come into the box, whereas the Baby will actually have a conversation with me. I like them more now that they've stopped drinking absolutely all the time, and have started moving around and actually getting interesting. Cuz they are moving now. Porker is walking pretty good, and the Baby is too. Hamster tries, but he's still very wobbly. The Baby fell out of the bed the other night which she wasn't happy about, but she was Ok once the human rescued her and put her back in.





They're also starting to play more too, although Porker is a bit rough. He has no manners yet. He doesn't realise that he has to be gentle with the human. She will let him play with her fingers, but I know he shouldn't be doing it, cuz she has taught me that that's a bad idea. She says it's Ok while they're still learning that she is a nice bean and not a big scary monster, and when they have, then she'll start to teach them right from wrong, but I don't like to see it. he's grabbing her with his claws, then biting her. Sure, he doesn't have any real teeth yet, just tiny little points, so it doesn't hurt, but soon he will and soon it will!





Today I was cuddling him when he saw the human's hand and started to attack it. Now, he was right up by my face at the time, and his claws kept thwapping me in the nose and eyes. I didn't like that one little bit. I told him off with a loud chirrup, and when he didn't listen, I took him round the middle in my two front paws, then hugged him in really close to me and squeezed him tight. I didn't hurt him, but he got the message real quick and stopped his bad manners. The next time the human played with him, he held onto her, but he didn't bite her as hard.





She's just had a good play session with the Baby too, although she prefers to lie on her back and bat at my human's fingers rather than holding on and biting. Her teeth are really through now though! I'm not enjoying feeding them as it is, but when they come all the way through, well, I can tell you, those kids better start eating solids mighty quick, cuz I'm not going through that!





Hmmmm, what else to tell you. There isn't much other than that. They do what they've always done. Sleep, eat, and now play. The Baby purred twice when the human was stroking her, but after only a few seconds, she opened her eyes and realised it was my human and then boy did she scream! I had to reassure her that the human wasn't gonna do what the Catnip mom Trish people does and put her in the stew pot. I wonder if one of the boys who's been kitten sitting has been telling stories to frighten them? Fess up, boys!





As they play more, the human is giving the mousies more and more attention. I tell you something, I don't like that one little bit. It's not cuz she's touching my mousies. That's fine. I know she won't hurt them. I trust her totally. In fact, even when they scream when she's weighing them, I do no more than brrp at them to tell them it'll be Ok. But when she's giving them attention, she isn't giving it to me. I've gotten used to being the only cat in the house and having her undivided attention, but that isn't the case any more. If she plays too long with my mousies, I get in the box and brrp at her, and if she still ignores me or thinks I'm talking to them instead of her, I lie down on that mousie, or put my head on them so that they can't play any more and the human will have to cuddle me instead. She tells me that it's rude, and that it's important for the mousies to learn that she's not big and scary. I do agree it's important, but her attention should be all mine, not divided between them! I've even been letting her pick me up more since I realised what was going on, and I've sat with her each time for about two minutes instead of a second. It's not cuz I feel sorry for her. I'll never admit that! No, it's cuz when I'm sitting on her, her attention is all mine and not the mousies'. That's the way it should be, right? When I demand attention, I should get it!





When I climbed in the box just now when she was playing with the Baby, she actually put her hand under me and refused to let me lie down on her. She told me sternly that I was being rude, and reminded me that I'd just ran away from her when she offered to cuddle me. I'm sneaky though. I worked out real quick that I wasn't gonna win, so I started to do the Baby's bum instead. I know that she'll never get in the way when I'm cleaning my mousies, but this time, she just kept on playing, and cuz the Baby was playing too, it was real hard for me to clean her! The human did hold her still while I did the messy bit which I appreciated, but when I started again as soon as she started to play, the human did a dirty trick. The boys were at the other end of the box, and that human put one of her big hands under a kitten and rolled him over. He was awake, so it didn't startle him, but they will squeak when she first touches him, and as soon as he did, I had to go investigate and see if he was all right. I thought I'd wash them both while I was up there, and while I was, that sneaky human carried on playing with my Baby! She says that she'll give me attention whenever I want it, and that she'll even cuddle me if I'm in the box, but she says that just as the mousies have to learn manners, I too have to learn not to be so jealous, as it may hamper their development. She took me out of the box when she was done playing though, cuddled me on her knee, gave me loads of yummy treats and told me I was and always would be the bestest cat ever. I flounced away in a huff though... After I'd gotten all the treats. My human should know that I'm the only one who deserves all that attention!





We did have some photos taken today, but the computer thing that Dogman's friend uses to transfer them from his flashy box is broken, so we'll have to wait a little. the human says she'll ask Dogman to take pictures tonight though, so you should have them tomorrow. Oh, to finish off, I'll give you the mousies' weights just so that you can see how much they've grown. They're getting big, and fast! And there's a surprise in the weight gains. Look closely at Hamster in relation to everyone else...





The Baby: 316 grams
Hamster: 325 grams.
Porker: 384 grams
Isn't it super!

Mummycat Monday: two weeks old!

Friends, today my mousies are two weeks old, and already they're looking less like mousies all the time! They're too big for one thing. They've grown massively in the last week! Also, they're now starting to miaow rather than just squeak. I've begun to talk to them which my human finds very amusing in the daytime, but not so great when I mingle that with my shouting at her at night.






I did feed all the babies just like I said I would. There's pictures to prove it! See the first one? you can see I'm being a good mummycat! Don't you think they've grown?





The next one shows Porker, and boy is he bigger than everyone else! His weight tonight is 268 grams. Isn't he a handsome fella! He doesn't cry now as much when the human cuddles him. He still has his moments, but they're getting less and less all the time.





Then there's little Hamster. He's still the smallest at only 234 grams, but he's slowly catching up, and he gained 13 grams in the last 12 hours which we're both very pleased with! He feels much skinnier than the others though, and the human says she has this funny feeling about him. She says something just doesn't feel right. She's hoping she's wrong, and so am I, but she thinks he might become an angel quite young in life. Why she thinks that she can't say definitively, but he's just different to the other two in so many ways. He's quieter. he doesn't fight, doesn't struggle, doesn't cry half as much, and doesn't suckle with the same dedication even now that he has the energy to do it. he also feels different when she handles him. I guess only time will tell, but please keep him in your thoughts.





Next we have another picture of Porker. Isn't my boy cute!





Then there's the Baby. She's the human's favourite, maybe because she knows we'll most likely end up keeping her, but maybe, just maybe, cuz she's the cutest. She loves tickles, and licks the human whenever she obliges. She has a tiny little squeak of a miaow, and she is the only one who will stay totally limp and asleep in the human's hands when she picks her up. She's just a little poppet, and I love her a lot! She weighs 240 grams today, so Hamster is catching her up nicely. She's the only one who has trippled her birth weight, although Porker is getting mighty close.





Wow, that's quite a lot of news! I'm all tuckered out! Anyway, as you can see from the last picture, there's no rest for a busy mummycat, so I think I'll head off now. I have hungry babies to see to. Ahem, I mean mousies!

Thirsty Thursday

Friends, my babies were thirsty all right when the human finally got up this morning. Why? Cuz I did exactly what I did the night before. I yelled and yelled, and when that didn't work, I chirrupped at her. That woke her up. She told me to lie down and give the babies a drink. I listened to her the first time, but the second, third and fourth I pretended I couldn't hear her.






She gave in at three in the morning and took me out for a cuddle. Of course, I tried to run off, but this didn't work so good, as it got me put very smartly back in the pen. She says she hopes I'll learn soon enough that if I whine (how dare she call it whining!), I can come out, but only for a cuddle and not to abandon the mousies and go adventuring. I say forget it, lady. Anyway, when she put me back, she laid me down again and helped me stretch out. Then she plugged the babies in and went to bed thinking she was scot free...





She gave in again at 5, and then again at half 6! Boy am I good! The chirrup seems to wake her more thoroughly than just yelling. She says she's able to tune out the usual yelling, but she can still wake up if Hamster is crying too much, or if my screaming turns urgent or distressed. She's far too clever, my human.





Hamster's umbilical chord fell off today. His was the last to go. The human held each of my mousies today while I had a really good wash of their bums and tummies (they aren't as yummy as mine yet, Ok?). It's easier when she holds them. If she doesn't, they squirm away from me, and I end up having to follow them all round the box. I get fed up of trying halfway through and come back to it again later, but when my human had them today, no matter how much they squirmed and wriggled and squeaked, they didn't go anywhere. I was able to give them a very vigorous cleaning, and I wonder if it was that which made the chord fall off. Either way, his tummy is yummier without that hanging off it.





The baby had another tickle from my human today, and she even got to licking her finger, the tickling one, that is. Then later, when she was sleeping, the human came and stole her for a cuddle. I didn't mind. I'm slowly learning that my human always brings the mousies back to me, and even if they cry when she has them, it's not cuz she's hurting them or being mean or anything. She curled the baby into her hand, and even when she woke up a little, all she did was sniff the human, then settle back down to sleep again. This is the first time she's been able to pick up any baby, asleep or awake, without them crying like someone was killing them!





I'm still not too sure about this mothering thing, but I like the little mousies well enough. I think they'll be good company, and anyway, it's cuz of them that my human gave me a whole cod fillet yesterday, all to myself! I've never had cod before, and this was fresh and still warm, and oh so juicey. Friends, as you know, I don't eat a lot, but I ate half of that in one sitting, and then the other half with my stinky goodness! The human says she has one left which I might get next week as a treat, but only if I'm extra special good. I can do that, oh yes I can! And if I can't, then all I gotta do is come and smoosh her for five minutes and she'll give me whatever I want! She has her faults, but at least she's easy to manipulate.

Mommacat Monday: To be or not to be?

Well, friends, the big day has arrived. The day of reckoning. The day of revelation. The day... Ok, my human says enough now.






Friends, today is the day the human learned the truth about whether or not I have mommacat status. I'm still gonna make you wait though! I have to tell you stuff that happened before. Ok, well I don't have to, but it's all about building tension, you know.





True to her word, the human has been a cleaning demon this weekend. This madness does hit her from time to time, but thankfully not very often. Don't get me wrong, she keeps the place clean, but as she said to Bug on the phone this morning when he asked her what on earth was going on, "It's not good enough to clean things when I'm like this. They need to be squeaky clean." And believe me, friends, if the amound of cleaning products is anything to go by, everything should shriek, never mind squeak!





Oh, I have something to tell you about squeaking in a minute, but before that... Kittens, look away now please. What follows is horrific and not for tender ears. She got the sucky monster out and it ate all of my fur on the sofas and everywhere else! Then she got water and cloths and icky smelling cleaning stuff and scrubbed the kitchen floor. Next she got out a cloth to go and take the layer of dust off stuff. Then it was off to the bathroom with a scrubber and some more stinky stuff to make the bath, sink, and even the horrid smelly human litterbox bowl thing squeak! She put loads of washing on the line outside. She let loose the sucky monster twice on the sofas to make sure all of my fur was gone! She even arranged my toys to make them look neat! But that lasted all of about ten seconds till i jumped into the middle of them and scattered them. She got the hint after that!





Thanks to so many of you who invited me over to yours to escape the madness of Casa de Tia. If you happened to notice a bit of your food was missing, or a warm spot in a comfy place, it was only me, so no need to worry! I, on the other hand, must.





Why? Cuz some of my food has been going missing! Not enough for the human to notice, but I sure do. She got an idea of what was going on night before last though. She was lying in bed when she heard the noise of my kibble being eaten. Sleepily, she stretched her feet down the bed... Only to encounter me at the bottom of it! she froze, listening hard. There it was again. Crunch, crunch, and it wasn't me! She could hear tiny noises coming from the food bowl, and she knew. So did I. We had a mouse, at least, she thinks we do. I stood up quietly on the bed, watching. It was fascinating. I decided to jump down and say hello to it, but as soon as I did, it ran away real, real quick. I didn't want to chase it. I don't kill things, you see, so I just let it go. For some reason, this really didn't please the human. She won't sleep in our bedroom and has the door closed tight, as if that'll stop it! She's also left a few kibbles out just to make sure she wasn't imagining things. Last night, none of them were taken, but she's gonna give it another night, as she thinks she's found his hole and wants to be sure. If it takes the food, she'll have to put measures in place to get rid of it. She won't tell me what those are. Says that I don't need to know, but that I'm not allowed in the bedroom for a while in case I eat stuff and get sick. This doesn't make any sense to me, but there's little I can do about it, as the door's closed and I can't open it. She says that she's taken all my food outta there, sept the bits she left down for mousey, so I'm not to worry that he's stealing my dinner!





This morning, the human reminded me that her friend would be coming to see her today, but also wanted to see me. Sure enough, she arrived, and do you know what the first thing she did was? She bent right down, started giving me scritches, and told me just how beautiful I was! I decided I liked this ladypeople. She obviously has a lot of sense! Her and the human made an awful lot of talk noise for the longest time, and she brought the human lotsa stuff like litter trays,a special spray for mine to stop anything smelling, some yummy food, some soup for the human and some super duper treats! And you know what? She even brought a present all for me! She's a quilter, and she had some scraps left over, so she made me my very own brightly coloured quilt! It's big and gorgeous and so, sooooo comfy. The human spread it on the sofa, and straight away I climbed on top of it and went to sleep. I absolutely love, love, love it, and it's all mine! Just for me! Especially made! No other cat in the world has one exactly like mine. How cool is that! It's all made from scraps, so has lotsa different colours and textures in it. Oh how I love it!





While she was here, she taught the human to cut my nails without hurting me. She also checked me over. Ok, Ok, I spose I've made you wait long enough. So, here's the bit you've been waiting for.





The ladypeople flipped me over to look at my yummy tummy and my, well, my nimples (I'm not saying the real word. It's not polite!). She said my tummy was indeed yummy, but I decided I didn't want her to see the colour of my nimples. I didn't want to give up my secret after all! No matter how much I shouted though, she persisted until I lay still and let her look. Friends, my nimples, all of them........................... Were pink!!!!!!!!!! That means that I am definitely carrying babies! Friends, I am gonna be a mummycat!





Now that I've told you, I'm glad I have. It's so good to finally be able to talk about all this, to tell you all how excited I am. Oh how super this will be! Nobody knows how many babycats I have inside of me yet, but that doesn't matter. At this stage it's hard to be sure anyway. But I have definitely pinked up, so there's no doubt now. My babies will be born around the 27th of June give or take a few days. I'm so, so excited, and not least because this means that I get nothing but the best food, and as much of it as I want, too! I think that's the bestest thing ever!





My human would like to post a link so that you can all track my pregnancy along with me. It shows pictures of babycats at different stages of development inside a mummycat. However, she's not sure whether she should or not. Obviously, the babies pictured didn't make it. They were taken from cats whose owners wanted them spayed even though they had babycats in them, and we know this will be distressing to many peoples and cats alike. But if we do post it, you'll know exactly what my babies look like as they're getting bigger inside me. What do you all think? Would you like to see, or would you rather not know?





Well, I'm so, so happy today, and that's nothing to the size of the smile my human has on her face! Neither of us can wait until babies arrive!





In quick other news, you should all go and visit House of Cats
where it's Barney's 2nd birthday today. I'm sure he could do with some help celebrating!





Happy, happy mommacat Monday to you all!

Oops, I may have slipped!

Friends, I'm ashamed of myself. I may have slipped and let my secret out of the bag, but not totally! Let me tell you all about it.




Dogman came up to spend the night last night cuz he needed to get some things done up here before he went back to where he works during the week. I've told you before that I like dogman a lot, so this morning, when he made noises about wanting to see my yummy tummy, I didn't think anything of it! Oh, if I can convince the torturing Trish people from the Katnip Krew, I might even put a picture of my yummy tummy up here, and then I may even be able to enter the competition of the OK Cats! I don't know if it's too late, but I can ask.





Anyway, the human asked him this morning if he could have a look at my nimples to see if I was pinking up. I've kept things very quiet whenever the human's had a feel. Some peoples say that the nimples enlarge when they go pink, and others say they don't, so I wasn't too worried about her having a feel. She tries not to check every day so that if there are any changes, she'll notice them more. Anyway, I'm getting off topic again.





Dogman asked the human to take me into the kitchen today where the light is strongest. His eyes are broken too, but not as badly as the human's. He can see, but it's only a little bit, so he needed the light to help him. Well, the human, trator that she is, distracted me with lotsa lovin' so that I got all big and long and stretchy and relaxed on her shoulder. Then she started to tickle my yummy tummy. What I didn't know was that she was parting the fur around my middle nimples so that Dogman, who is now a trator too, could take a sneaky peak. I mean, a man, whether he's a cat or a people, is not sposed to look at a ladycat's nimples! "Yeah," was his only word to the human for a long time, but then he followed up with, "But I'm not sure. My eyes might be playing tricks, but I think so." The human showed him some more of my nimples just to make sure, then she took me into the living room and put me on my back on her knee. She carried on tickling my yummy tummy, lulling me into a false sense of security. She knows how much I like that! So, here is what she found.





Dogman thinks my nimples are pink, but that's in no way conclusive as his eyes do play up and pink is one of the colours he struggles most to see. The human found that the two nimples that are in the middle (not the set closest to my back legs but the next set up) are enlarged compared to the other ones... A lot! They're firmer to the touch too. Now this could be cuz they're right on the beautiful round swell of my yummy tummy which means they stand out more, but the human has never noticed them so big and prominent before. However, all of my other nimples are still quite small. They may be a wee bit bigger, but if they are, it's not by much at all.





Am I just starting to pink? Will the other nimples enlarge over the next week? Does this mean I'm having kittens? Well, I'll leave you to ponder about that. I'm still not telling! Let's see what you think when you gaze again upon the floof which adorns the Tia tummy! Mom Trish, would you mind? I might stop calling you torturer!